Seed and fertilizer sower.



G. W. GANE.

SEED AND FERTILIZER SOWER.'

APPLICATION FILED AUG, I3, 1914.

Patented Jan. 11, 1916.

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GEORGE WILLIAM GANE: or NOEMANBY, Tartanam,I NEW ziaananrn.

SEED AND FERTILIZER SOWER i Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. ill, 12H6.

AApplication led August v13, 1914. Serial No. 856,557.

To all whom t may concern:

Be 'it' known that- I, GEORGE- WInLIaM GANE, subject of the King of Great B ritam, residing at Normanby, Taranaki, 1n the Dominion of New Zealand, have invented new and useful Improvements 1n Seed and Fertilizer Sowers; and l do hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention relates to improvements 1n ap aratus designed for the' lsowing'of seed an l fertilizers and is applicable to all classes ofmachines employed for that purpose in which the seed and fertilizer'are delivered from a hopper containing them through outlet tubes in the bottom of such hopper.

The invention has been devised principally in order to provide improvements in con-l struction that will allow of the even feeding of the material through the several outlets and for the amount of material thus--fed be ing regulated with readiness and exactitude.l

' In fully describing the invention reference will be made to the accompanying sheetof drawings, in which :-v

Figure 1 is a part front elevationand part sectional elevation of a seed or fertilizer box Vor hopper fitted with the improved 'feeding apparatus. Fig. 2is 4an eiid elevation, and Fig. 3 .a cross sectional elevation of the same.. Figs. 4 and 5 are end and front elevation respectively of one of the feed rollers ern-- -ployed' with the apparatus, shown on an enlarged. scale.

A represents' an 'ordinary ,seed' box or hopper having discharge openings B ar? ranged at intervals along its bottom., In this invention a' plate C is arranged along the -bottom of the boxA and is formedwith apertures. C therein coinciding .in .positionl with the openings B. A second plate D is placed betweenA the bottom` of the box and the plate C and thisplate is mounted sothat it may move to and, fro longitudinally. -It is also. formed with a number of apertures D that correspond innurnber',l shape and Vsize with the apertures C of. the plate C. By moving-"this plate D in either direction its apertures may be made to coincide fully with the apertures C or be'. partially or wholly shutioff'ther'efrom. The passages from the box to the discharge openings may thus be regulatedinsize at will.

The apertures C andA D. are .preferably made Qf'lozenge 'or 'diamond shape inforder;

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to more etlectually regulate the extent of their opening.

The plate D at one end is carried out through the'endof' the bo'x A and is turned down and forked as shown'at fl (Figs. .1 and 2). A screw pin E'projecting from the end of the box passes between the fork members and a collar nut F is screwed upon Ythis pin and engagesthe forks so, that by screwing it in or out, the plate D may be correspondingly moved. Thus the plate may be fixed at any position desired. l

Mounted within the box',one above each aperture C, are the helically ribbed rollers G. T-hese rollers are'mounted on a spindle H extending throughout the full length of .the box and to 'which rotation is adapted to be imparted by gearing with the machine in any of thewell known ways. The rollers are-so -positioned as to drag closely across the surface of theplate in their rotation and.A

thereby for each one to carry around a supply of the material -the box and feed it across the aperture C beneath. The rollers therefore serve to feed constant and regular quantntles of'y the material through the' dissuch as K (Fig. 1) 4inthe plate D which slot apertures pass over slots M1in the bottom of the box and allow of any such material fall'- Only 'one of each of these apertures is shown vin the drawings, but they may be arranged between each two discharge Openings. The form of roller G employed is sho .vn 1n detallin- Figs 45 and 5 and is made with any desired number'. of ribs G extending in parallel helical lines across 'its' peripheral width so' as thereby to leave hollows between,

.int'ofv which" the s eedor fertilizer will fall.

What If'd'o'j claim afs myinvention and desireto sedare' byLetters Patent is 'In 'seed' `nd` fertllizersowers, the combi- .,.iation of. ,17190K )ha-ving a'. number of dislig.

charge openings and slot apertures in the In testimony \\'hereof, Ihave signed this bottom thereof; a plate fixed nhm'e said hotspecification in the presence lof two snb- 10 tom and provided with apertures registering scrihing witnesses.

with the discharge Openings; und :1 sliding E plate having therein discharge apertures (ILORGE WILLIAM GANE' corresponding to said discharge openings Witnesses:

and slot apertures Corresponding to the 'slot W. ALEXANDER,

apertures. M. E. BROWN. 

